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About 2001 Peru shootdown
- The 2001 Peru shootdown was an incident on 20 April 2001, in which the Peruvian Air Force shot down a civilian floatplane, killing American Christian missionary Veronica "Roni" Bowers and her infant daughter Charity.While flying into the Loreto Region of Peru, Bowers, her daughter Charity, husband Jim, and six-year-old son Cory were being followed by a United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) observation plane which advised the Peruvian Cessna A-37B Dragonfly to shoot the civilian plane down, believing that they were carrying drugs out of the country.
- The Peruvian Air Force was operating as part of the Air Bridge Denial Program.
- The CIA did not attempt to identify the tail number of the church-owned plane per procedure.
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